Thu 12 December 2024: Pakistan has once again been shaken by protests, with Imran Khan, the country’s jailed ex-prime minister, at their epicentre. This time, the state has responded with a technologically sophisticated crackdown, with digital blackouts and restrictions on social media. Contributors: Shahzeb Jillani – Journalist, Dawn News Rabia Mehmood – Managing editor, New […]
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Thu 12 December 2024: US President-elect Donald Trump has reportedly invited his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping to participate in his presidential inauguration next month. Sources revealed that Trump extended the invitation to Xi in early November, shortly after the election, but it remains unclear whether the Chinese president has accepted, CBS News reported late Wednesday. […]
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Thu 12 December 2024: South Korean Army Chief of Staff Gen. Park An-su was suspended on Thursday after being named commander of a short-lived martial law declared by President Yoon Suk Yeol last week. Park is among at least six military commanders suspended as investigations expand into their roles in Yoon’s Dec. 3 martial law […]
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Wed 11 December 2024: Afghan acting Refugees and Repatriation Minister Khalil-ur-Rehman Haqqani was killed, along with six others, in an explosion inside his ministry building in central Kabul on Wednesday, Afghanistan’s local media reported. Haqqani and six other people were killed, and several others injured in the blast, Tolo News reported, citing a Taliban spokesman. […]
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Tue 10 December 2024: The Jammu and Kashmir government has asked the Indian government to decide the fate of the Rohingya refugees living in the restive region, but until such a decision is taken, the refugees should be treated with dignity. Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, who leads a government with limited powers formed after India scrapped the region’s autonomy in 2019, told […]
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Tue 10 December 2024: Hong Kong public hospitals aim to incorporate artificial intelligence to identify and treat high-risk patients at an earlier stage, according to local media. Dr. Cheung Ngai-tseung, Hong Kong Hospital Authority’s head of information technology and health informatics, said that they were looking to integrate AI into the clinical management system to […]
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Tue 10 December 2024: China’s President Xi Jinping Tuesday called for embracing global solidarity and cooperation, weeks ahead of former US President Donald Trump’s return to the White House. “Humanity is a closely entwined community with a shared future. Countries are not riding separately in some 190 small boats, but are rather all in a […]
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Mon 09 December 2024: Delhi’s air pollution is so bad that it’s sometimes hard to discern anything more than a few metres in front of you. And it is affecting people’s health. Breathing is uncomfortable, and one of us (Komali) developed rashes and red eyes on a recent trip to the city. Our experiences are […]
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Sun 08 December 2024: South Korea’s former defense minister was taken into custody early Sunday for his role in last week’s martial law declaration, which plunged the country into a deepening political crisis. Kim Yong-hyun had already resigned after the short-lived martial law declaration by President Yoon Suk-yeol, which was lifted within hours after parliament […]
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Sat 07 December 2024: India cited “national interests” and commitments to various regimes in defending arms supplies to Israel. “The issue of India’s exports, including India’s exports of anything which directly or indirectly has any military implications, is guided by our national interest and by our commitments to various regimes,” Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said in response to a […]
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